September 1939
The air was filled with the stench of smoke and the anguished cries of desperate parents. "WHERE IS MY MARGARET?!" a woman wailed as she stumbled through the rubble-strewn streets, her eyes wild with panic.
Another father had pasted his son's photo on a crumbling wall, screaming "WHERE IS MY ROBERT?!"
"MY DONALD!" a father joined the chorus of mourning, his voice cracking with raw emotion.
The city of Cassiopeia had been ravaged by a deadly massacre.
Now the streets were littered with the bodies of the fallen, blood pooling around them like dark mirrors.
A father lashed out, punching a cracked wall in his grief. "I SHOULDN'T HAVE LEFT MY CHILD ALONE!" he cried, his fist leaving a smear of crimson.
The massacre had been unspeakably brutal - rape, torture, and brutal deaths. No one knew if their loved ones were among the victims.
Yet the parents would not give up. They would search endlessly, driven by an unquenchable need to find their missing children.
A couple named Mary and Arthur, who had come from afar, surveyed the gruesome scene as they disembarked from their private helicopter.
Mary's heart ached for the mothers like her, who had lost their beloved children in this senseless violence.
She watched as a woman collapsed over a body, wailing for her husband. Steeling herself, Mary began to walk through the devastated city, her husband warning her of the dangers.
She spotted a missing child poster for a boy named Robert Watson, and her gaze fell on a father who was begging for help to find his son. "I can't even know if he's dead!" the man cried, his face contorted with anguish. "Please, help me find my child!"
Mary shook her head regretfully. "I'm afraid that's impossible for me to do." The man's anguished scream tore at her heart. "Imagine if it was your own child," he pleaded.
As Mary turned away, she saw another mother weeping for her missing daughter, Margaret.
The woman revealed that Margaret had brain issues and was not stable, making her vulnerable out on the dangerous streets.
"And my Margaret is nowhere to be found! She hated that name!"
Saddened, Mary rejoined her husband, agreeing it was time to leave this city of nightmares.
But as they boarded their helicopter, the sounds of tanks and gunfire erupted, and the remaining civilians began to flee in terror.
Mary and Arthur lifted off, escaping the horrific scene below as the violence continued to unfold.
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The Lost Child
Mystery / ThrillerA lost girl who is said to be kidnapped in the year 1939. During the second world war, she entered the lives of the Shire family as their servant, time flies and WW2 started, the family decides to fly to another country to avoid the tragedy and deci...
